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mark posting in

Hi all!

I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.

Thank you!

wildlikemomanddad posting in

dear_mun

Only took you 25 years and the damn Netflix reboot to get me out of your head and onto paper and phosphors, huh?

Shouldn’t you be working on my canon instead of this nonsense? I know you have up to meeting - ugh - all the serious contenders for my heart and all of the old guard in your head (love what you’ve done with the crashing boar, by the way, and give my regards to Akari) - but your Constant Readers kind of wanna know how we punt Hanzo into next week and out of the narrative, and good riddance. Creep.

And I see you eyeing a journal username “weiward_romantic”, don’t you dare until it’s her turn to make a dynamic entrance into our living room. Wang To Na is a great sparring partner and knows where all the best dim sum is at but also she should probably have canon instead of just a feverishly conceived backstory and an image song by Flavor Foley before you start RPing her too.

With any luck Vampire Romeo and Werewolf Juliet will be done by then so I can try out being your third. God knows my story is unfinished enough that me and all my sparring partners belong there.

- Saotome, Ichiko Kazuma
早乙女, 一子和馬

highfunctioning_sociopath posting in

dear_mun

Ah, Mun, here we are again.

It's been another... hiatus you call it? How many years this time? Six? More? And what has inspired you this time? All those little ideas that continued to percolate? They just wouldn't let you go...

And now you've returned to me, because you're just like me: a user . I've been terribly slow. 14 years in, and I've finally discovered that you utilise me for "stress processing".

Well, I have some home truths to tell you: there is doubtless any John Watson around to help you play out any of these situations. Let alone Mary, Molly, Lestrade... or... others.

[He means his brother, Mrs Hudson, or the other Yarders.]

So, what you need to do is pack me up and put me away. Then just go and write these stories. You don't need me to play them out. You are actually quite capable of working them out on your own.

"More fun," you say? For whom? Oh, that's right, because it's all about you. Never mind me.

highfunctioning_sociopath posting in

dear_player

Ah, Player, here we are again.

It's been another... hiatus you call it? How many years this time? Six? More? And what has inspired you this time? All those little ideas that continued to percolate? They just wouldn't let you go...

And now you've returned to me, because you're just like me: a user . I've been terribly slow. 14 years in, and I've finally discovered that you utilise me for "stress processing".

Well, I have some home truths to tell you: there is doubtless any John Watson around to help you play out any of these situations. Let alone Mary, Molly, Lestrade... or... others.

[He means his brother, Mrs Hudson, or the other Yarders.]

So, what you need to do is pack me up and put me away. Then just go and write these stories. You don't need me to play them out. You are actually quite capable of working them out on your own.

"More fun," you say? For whom? Oh, that's right, because it's all about you. Never mind me.

unkeptsecret posting in

dear_player

The discussions regarding my great-grandfather is... interesting to read. Of course, one shouldn't pay attention to rumors assumptions. Especially not about those whom can not speak up to defend their honor.

[Alas, he's incredibly amused by the idea that he wasn't the first Baratheon to fall in love with a knight.]

Now, I'd appreciate that this new tall tale (ha punny) has renewed your interest in myself. I'm bursting with excitement to see where it takes us. I need to get back and stretch my legs. Much yet to see and do.

canhandleit posting in

dear_player

Congratulations, you're both decades too late and a couple years too early.

[It's called "seasons". :| I'm in the process of a rewatch, okay?! It's a lot of content!]

Yeah, whatever... Look, if you're gonna break me out on a day like today, drinks are on you. I don't make the rules.

[You just did, though...]

bornstrong posting in

dear_player

I--I don't understand.

I've committed to dying for the Achaeans. I will gladly do so.

Why, then, do you insist on bringing me to some "game"? I don't do well with games; I never did.

hairyone posting in

dear_mun

Oi!

[ there’s a decidedly unimpressed scowl set firmly upon her brow, arms crossed and skinny hip cocked - all sharp angles and pointy edges. prickly and snarling and annoyed; perhaps a front to hide the discomfort of nerves simmering in her gut. ]

As much as I enjoy the thrilling adventure of being plucked from home and put in this… quasi-Globalsoftian database or whatever all this is. [ it rears up again : the chill of fear trickling down the back of her neck. she squashes it with a toss of her head and gnash of teeth.] Are you actually planning to do something with me or is this all a passing lark in the virtual bloody park?

[ a stomp of a booted foot to make her point. a beat passes. her arms unfold so her fingers can fiddle with the hem of her skirt.]

I don’t like to leave Gaz alone for too long. The boy is near useless without me.

soulcollects posting in

dear_player

For what purpose have I been summoned? It is not yet All Hallows' Eve.

....Though it is true that we can sense many lost souls around here — perhaps damned to wallow in their own despair, belonging to nowhere and no-one.

Is that it? Do you think we might help them find reprieve?

[ A pause, and he tilts his head lightly to the side as though listening to something before speaking again, knuckles taut within the skin of his gloves as he grasps the handle of his cane tightly, suddenly tense. The man draws in a slow, steadying breath. ]

....It wonders about the rules to this realm. It can tell that things are different. [ ... ] It lusts for more than one soul to claim. Do you now see why it is a danger for me to be conjured forth, here? I do not wish to harm the innocents of this realm. This.... "Dreamwidth."

hairyone posting in

dear_player

Industrial. Innovative. Imaginative

Impressive

Reading

Minor operations; testing new serving path

Reach characterization through violence and also RP - Canon is AWSIDY, my Ranma fic

So many ideas left unexplored (Cross-posted to Dear Player)

So many ideas left unexplored (Cross-posted to Dear Mun)

(no subject)

when your love of idiots has you returning to some classics, feat. bday boy

muse is...confused. [canon is Iphigenia at Aulis, by Euripides.]

canon is we will rock you. cross-posted at dear player.

canon is American Horror Story: Freak Show, ft. the most obscure character choice in existence

fallen back into a dystopian rock’n’roll rabbit hole (canon is we will rock you)